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â€œThere has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society,â€? CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. â€œThat consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision.â€?

To be quite sure, the murderous DDS was indeed responsible for a stunning tragedy: killing a beloved lion in a Zimbabwe national park and then beheading him for the sake of a trophy. The bloody practise drips with ugly anachronisms, from being a shabby and pathetic display of masculine prowess that demonstrates the ultimate poverty of manhood as an idea, to the colonialist overtones of a white man paying 50,000 dollars to fly to an African nation and turn some of its endangered fauna into a ...

Tennessee’s most recent effort to prevent drunk driving was laugh-out-loud sexist. The Booze It And Lose It campaign, paid for with a federal grant and run by the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, was aimed at young men — the people most likely to drive drunk — and chose sexism as a method for driving home the message that drinking impairs your judgement.

Pretty sure a lot of people in the Governor’s Highway Safety Office were drunk when this one was proposed and approved.

“After a few drinks the girls look hotter and the music sounds better,” the campaign materials tell their target audience, which appears to be straight men who don’t mind being condescended to.

The good news is, people complained, ...

Tennessee’s most recent effort to prevent drunk driving was laugh-out-loud sexist. The Booze It And Lose It campaign, paid for with a federal grant and run by the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, was aimed at young men ...

Sometimes fighting the patriarchy is about the little things. Like, really little.

In a post on Medium, Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner describes how she recently updated the site’s Friends and Groups icons so that the woman silhouette is now in front of the man and of equal size.

It’s a miniscule change, of course, but as Winner notes, symbols matter and are worth questioning. Why was it considered so natural, for so long, that the man silhouette be in front of the woman, literally leading?

And the change seems symbolic (speaking of symbols) of the kind of new perspective gained by diversifying your workforce. Just imagine what other default settings — big and small — might get changed if Facebook

Sometimes fighting the patriarchy is about the little things. Like, really little.

In a post on Medium, Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner describes how she recently updated the site’s Friends and Groups icons so that ...